Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31006, Daniel Eastman, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Eastman, Daniel
S 31006
CONTENTS

18. 180
Maine
Daniel Eastman dec.
of _____ in the State of
who was a Private the
commanded
by Captain Evans of the
commanded
by _____ in the Mass.
time for Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll of Portland
at the rate of 50 Dollars
Cents per annum,
to commence on the 1th day of March, 1841. from time when last paid & ending 16 Jan'y 1844
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of
June 1852 and sent to
Arrears to the Ath of
J. H. Stevens Pratt
Semi-annual allowance ending
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by
Wm. Chase
Clerk,
Book V
Vol. 1
Page 13

Daniel Eastman
1869

STATE OF MAINE.
COUNTY OF Oxford ss.
ON this seventh day of Aug t A. D. 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the Board of Probate now sitting, at Fryeburg in sd County  Daniel Eastman a resident of Lowell in the county of Oxford and State of Maine, aged 66 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
That at Fryeburg , then in the County of York - now Oxford in the County of Waltham  now in the State of Maine on the 11 th day of August 1781 - in a week or two after the Indians invaded & plundered the town of Bethel , on the Androscoggin River in sd County of York , and killed some of the inhabitants & took & carried away others prisoners. I volunteered as a soldier and enlisted for about four months into a volunteer Company commanded by Capt John Evans and John Stickney was Lt - in said Company and I went with the Company to said Bethel and there built forts and breast works and scouted in the woods for the Indians, and late in the fall next after I think about the middle of December, I returned to Fryeburg and again on the 11 th day of April (as near as I can remember) in the year 1782 I enlisted during the war into the company commanded by Lt Stephen Harrington of Fryeburg aforesaid - Col  Isaac - as Ensign and Hugh Gordon Clerk, with other noncommissioned officers. This company was not attached to a particular Regiment but we marched to Bethel , through Lowell - Waterville - Albany to guard that place and the frontier country on the Androscoggin River . There at Bethel we built and repaired forts & breast works - and the company made frequent excursions into the wilderness - up the Eller River , the Bear River , the Sunday , and pleasant rivers and up to the Lakes in the vicinity - and also up & down the Androscoggin River and staid at Bethel until the middle of December when our Commanding Officer permitted us to return to Fryeburg and other neighboring towns, where we belonged, with positive orders to be ready at all times to return to duty when called for - and on the Spring after, I think in April . I returned to duty again at Bethel in sd Harrington's Company - when we again attended to our duty as soldiers until the middle of December then went, and not more than a week before Gen Washington resigned his Commission our commanding officer dismissed us - she gave me a discharge which I have lost - and I have no evidence from Documents to prove my Service.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Daniel Eastman
before me  Stephen Emery  Judge

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. But whether he served as a "Revolutionary Soldier," the Court do not decide - The deposition of Levi Dyer accompanies the declaration of the applicant.
Stephen Emery. Judge -
* A copy of a Resolve of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, annexed to the application of Isaac Abbott, herewith transmitted, is adduced as evidence of the nature of the service .
Stephen Emery. Judge -
Joseph G. Gale Register
Clerk of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Daniel Eastman for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this seventh day of August A. D. 1832
Compt.
Joseph G. Gale Register

I certify that I have long been acquainted with the within name Gastman - believe him to be a man of truth and not he is worth as a revolutionary soldier - other just as same
The aforesaid applicant was requested the opinion of the Court as to the nature of his service since discharge, and the Court being like the same into consideration, hereby express an opinion that said service would be deemed "Revolutionary". In testimony whereof the said Court has hereunto set its seal the same of affixed the seal thereof, at the City of Valley Forge, Pa. 1853.
Stephen Emery, Judge.

I was born in Pembroke in the county of Washington in the state of New Hampshire on the twenty first day of April 1766. I have no record of my age. I lived in the town of Lyeborg when I entered into the service and lived there about five years after the Revolutionary War and then removed to Lowell an adjoining town, where I have ever since lived. I first volunteered into Capt John Evans Company & then enlisted into the company commanded by Lt Stephen Farrington. Our company was not attached to any regiment but stationed to defend the frontier country as stated above. I had a discharge signed by Lt Stephen Farrington, but it was burned with some deeds & other papers in a house which was burned belonging to Lt Stephen Dresher of Lowell.

State of Maine County of Oxford ss.
On this fourteenth day of February A.D. 1852 personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County & State aforesaid James Eastman a resident of Lovell in said County age fifty two years who being first sworn doth on his oath make the following declar- ation in order to obtain the arrears of Pension that was due his father Daniel Eastman who was a pensioner of the United States under the act of June 7th 1832
And your declarant states that his father Daniel Eastman was pensioned under the act of June 7th A.D. 1832 and was placed on the Pension Roll of Maine in July 1833 at the rate of $53.33 which pension he enjoyed for one or two years and was sur- rendered in 1834 as he believes and from that time received no pension up to the time of his death. Your declarant states as his belief that his father Daniel Eastman was a soldier in the war of the Revolution at least 16 months and in the manner substantially as he set forth in his original declarative. He further states that his father Daniel Eastman died at Lovell on the sixteenth day of January A.D. 1844 and left no widow and that James Eastman Sarah Harrington Solomon

Eastman Cyrus Eastman Daniel Eastman & Isaac Eastman are the only surviving children of the said Daniel Eastman Deceased.
He therefore claims a pension under the act aforesaid for himself and the other children of said Eastman deceased. James Eastman
Signed and sworn on the day and year first above written
Before me
Mary H. H. Justice of the Peace
It now recd man by these presents That I James Eastman above named do hereby appoint Freeman Bradford of Portland in the county of Cumberland my true and lawfull Attorney for me and in my name and for my use & also for the use of the other children of the said Daniel Eastman to prosecute the claim asserted in the foregoing declaration for a pension and for that purpose my said Attorney is authorized and empowered to examine any and all papers that may be on file relative to the claim of the said Daniel Eastman for a

pension and generally to do and perform whatever may be necessary and proper to be done in and about the premises. And my said Attorney is hereby authorized to appoint one or more substitutes under him.
Heedby ratifying and confirming whatever my said Attorney may lawfully do in the premises. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this eighteenth day of February A.D. 1852
James Eastman Oxford Feb. 14, 1852 Then personally appeared the above named James Eastman and acknowledged the foregoing power of Attorney by him signed to be his free act and deed. Before me
Mary Stickney Justice of the Peace
I Freeman Bradford of Portland, above named hereby appoint J. J. Coombs of Washington City, D.C. my Substitute for the purposes of the foregoing application. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this eighteenth day of February A.D. 1852 Freeman Bradford Camberland Feb. 18 1852 Then personally appeared the above named Freeman Bradford and acknowledged the above power of substitution to be his free act and deed. Before me J. H. Newman Just. Peace

7809 Daniel Eastman
April 9 th 1830
By 5, 6, 8, 14, 16
1809.
P 325
Adm
16 months
$ 53.33
Claimant Fryeburg Me

BRIEF in the case of  Daniel Eastman  of Lovell in the State of Maine  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 66 years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. As a Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. Gen.   Years, Months, Days.     11 August In 1781 — 4 Private Capt Evans   11 April — 82 years during the war Livingston  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Trybargello Massachusetts  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By traditionary evidence  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Richard South Examining Clerk.

31006 Rev INVALID.
File No. 31,006
Daniel Eastman
Rev War
Act: June 1 st 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 118
[Arrangement of 1870.]

N o 18180 Maine
Daniel Eastman
of Oxford Co. in the State of Maine who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Evans of the Right commanded by in the Mass. Troops for 16 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 53 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27. day of July 1833 and sent to Claiborne Fryeburg. Me.
Arrears to the 1st of March 1833 106.66 Pension, allowances ending Sep. 1833 26.66
$ 133.32
{ Revolutionary Claim, due June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. Brown Book E Vol. 1
Clerk,
Page 13
See Ebenezer Davenport's papers for actual service - Bangor certificate viz - Evans 2 mo 1831 Farming 10. 3. 20. 82
Order suspending payment 30 Aug 1834 to Akenhall again Set to pensioner 30 Aug 34 Set to do - 23 Nov 1835

Brief in the case of Daniel Eastman dec d County and State of Maine. act 7 June 1832.
Claim, ( "original," or "for increase." )
Proof exhibited, ( if original. )
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
This claim was originally allowed for 16 mo. and subsequently suspended. Application has been made for restoration and 15 mo proved by a pensioner who served with him. See papers of Isaac Abbott & Moses Hutchins, both pensioners, on the Maine roll under act of '32.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent
J. P. Goodwin Present,
Kirby Examining Clerk.

Nov 27/52
David Eastman
Oct 1852
Addl? Evidence
Exhibit
Oct 27 th 1852
J. P. Coombs

Washington, Feb. 27 th 1882
Sir:
Enclosed please find additional evidence in support of the claim of David Eastman, of Maine, who was once upon the pension roll under Act of 1832, but whose pension has been suspended.
Said David Eastman was in the same service with Moses Hutchins, whose claim was admitted same time last year. Major Kirby is familiar with the case of Hutchins having examined the claim, and I would suggest that he will understand this case more readily in consequence, should it be referred to him.
Very respectfully, Your obed Servt J. L. Gault
H. E. Heath Esq Comm r of Pensions

Payments to be made at Portland by the First U. S. Br. Bk. V Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of Maine
Recorded in the Pension Of- fice, in Book E. Vol. 1 Page 13 by D. Brown Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Daniel Eastman of the State of Maine who was a Private in the Revolutionary War
is entitled to receive, Fifty three dollars and Thirty three cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this 27 th day of July one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three
Acting John S. Beck Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
J. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

Daniel Eastman dec d . Maine.
Act 7 June 1837. adm?
15- Mo private, $50. per An: from the time he was last paid at the rate of $53.33 per Ann: to 16 Jan y 1824, when he died - Payable to James Eastman, Sarah Harrington Solomon Eastman, Cyrus Eastman, Daniel Eastman & Isaac Eastman, only surviving children.
cert - k
J. J. Coombs Present,

Dan Eastman
Macon
good with his pen and ink.
Lowell Oct 14
over
S. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions War Department City Washington

I have the honor to certify that I was in the service of the State of Maine during the Revolutionary War, in the year Eighty one, I marched to Subbury Canady (now Bethel) in this State and Staid there until Capt. Garisons and Guarded that place as a volunteer under Capt. John Evans deceased, until past the middle December following.
On the last of April or the first of May Seventeen hundred eighty two I enlisted during the Revolu- tionary war under Lieut. Stephen Harrington and Marched to the above named place, Subbury Canady and Staid until the middle of December following and then returned to Fryeburg for winter quarters and be in readiness on an invasion to March to that place again. On the first of May Seventeen hundred eighty three I was ordered again to March to Subbury Canady and there Staid until the end of the Revolutionary War or until the 20 December 1783. I was paid in continental Money at Fryeburg and know not that my name is on that list as being paid by the State of Massachusetts.
Daniel Eastman
On this 23rd October 11th 1834 Personally appeared the above named Daniel Eastman and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed. Before me Levi Hobson Justice of the Peace

South Aug 22 d July 15 th
for
Mr. Daniel Eastman
on J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions War Department Washington D. C.

Hon. J. L. Edwards City Washington war Department's Board of Pensions
Sir I received your Note dated August 30 th 1834 requesting me to make a detail ed Statement of Each term of my Actual Service in the field or Garrison in the war of the Revolution which return I made in the month of October last past, with my certificate there with, Mr Moses Hutchins made his return the same month you have sent Mr Hutchins a certificate but I have received no return as yet I think I am as much entitled to a pension as Mr Hutchins we both volunteered under Capt. John Evans the first of August 1781 and marched to Bethel Erecting Forts or Garrisons until the first of Dec r and both enlisted under Lieut. Stephen Harrington in 1782 as our first papers will represent, it is true we were paid some Bountys money by the Town of Hartford Continental paper bills which was but very little more we did not obtain our discharge until until peace took place in Dec r 1783 as our first papers will set forth Sir I hope you will consider me as much entitled to a pension as Mr Hutchins as we were both together under the above mentioned Officers Sir wish you to write me as soon as may be that I may know the result Sir your compliance will much oblige your Hum ble Serv t .
Lowell August 14 th 1835
Oxford County Me
Hon. J. L. Edwards City Washington war Department

STATE OF MAINE.
PROBATE COURT, Cumberland County, ss.
Be it Known, That on this Seventeenth day of February 18 52 it has been satisfactorily proved in open Court, being a Court of Record, That David Eastman late of Dover was a Retired Pensioner of the United States, and that he died at Said Dover on the Sixteenth day of January 18 51 . And that
David Eastman David Eastman's Sister Eastman (Mrs) Eastman, David Eastman and Mary Eastman
the children and the only surviving children of the said David Eastman deceased, and that he left no widow.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court, and subscribed my name, this Seventeenth day of February in the year 18 52
Josiah Pierce  Register of Probate for Cumberland County.

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, ss.
Probate Office,
PORTLAND,
July 24,
A. D. 1853
I, — Freeman Bradford —————
REGISTER OF PROBATE,
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that
Hon. Isaiah True
is Judge of Probate within and for said County of Cumberland — and that Moses H. Colby Jr.
was ACTING JUSTICE OF THE PEACE,
within and for the County of Cumberland as appears by the papers hereto annexed, that they are DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that the Commission of the said H. Colby Jr. is dated Nov. 31, A. D. 1846 (and will expire Nov. 31 ————— A. D. 1853).
and that the following SIGNATURE, purporting to be their own ————— GENUINE.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the SEAL OFFICIAL of said Court, the day and year first above written.
Freeman Bradford
Register.

STATE OF MAINE.
OXFORD COUNTY, ss.
I, RUFUS KING GOODENOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Oxford, hereby certify that
Judah Dana Esq
whose genuine signature is annexed to the foregoing Deposition of
Levi Dyer the other which are hereto annexed is a
Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Oxford.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this 14th day of May in the year A. D. 1833
RK Goodenow
Clerk of Oxford County Courts

I Levi Dresser of lawful age do here and say that I have been acquainted with Moses Hatchins and Daniel Eastman from our boyhood - and know that each of them elected in the spring of the year A D 1832 into the company commanded by Lt. Stephen Harrington and served in the manner in which they have stated in their declarations this day made before the Court of Probate for I served with them as a colonel and know that they did their duty - Levi Dresser
State of Maine
Oxford ss. August 7 - A D 1832 Then personally affirmed the above signed Levi Dresser and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him signed before me
Judah Dana Just Peace

A. Eastman add. Declaration

Land in 1781 he was a credible witness who being that he was in relation to his former discharge and such. But by reason of old age and consequent infirmities he cannot so far particular as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served and left there the periods mentioned below and in the year of a private soldier - for the year AD 1781 four months & an half - and for the year AD 1782, Eleven months & an half - of which - forty-five days & some of April were by the permission of the commanding officer, spent in winter quarters at Tazewell and the remainder, in actual service for which time he claims a pension
Judah Dana Just. Pean
Judah Dana Just. Peace

Wadsworth
The present petition... The Pioneers... such a respectable... forty years... acquainted with... Daniel Abbott of... Israel... and... about seventy years of age... a little older and some a little shorter... generally believed in... the neighborhood where they live that they served in the war of the revolution... are reliable witnesses and I have no doubt that their declarations are true.
Judah Dana forst. Pease
August 6th A.D. 1835
Personally appeared before me the undersigned... Isaac Abbott of... a respectable... and credible Witness and swore that he was intimately acquainted with said Daniel... and was with said... as soldiers in the Revolutionary war - at Bethel or Sadsbury... the frontier settlement on the Androscoggin River in the years 1781 - and 1782 - and knew that he served from the first of August 1781 to the middle of December of the same year - and about all of the year 1782 under Capt John Evans - the first year under Lt Stephen... the second year... and how much time he served the year 1783 he could not tell as he was not himself then in the service - sworn to before me Judah Dana forst. Pease

State of Maine
Oxford - May 6 D 1833 Personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County - Capt Wm Evans of Fryeburg in said County aged about seventy years a respectable Citizen and credible Witness and swore that he was well acquainted with and had known for fifty years Isaac Abbott of Fryeburg - Moses Halibut, Levi Dresher and Daniel Eastman of Lowell in said County - and that they are about seventy years of age and are credible witnesses and are generally reputed and believed to have ser- ved in the revolutionary war on the frontier of York & Cumberland Counties at Bethel then called Sudbury Canada on the Androscoggin River in the years D 1781 D 1782 & 1783 that my Father Capt John Evans of Fryeburg in July or August D 1781 took command of the Company which was raised in Fryeburg and marched from Fryeburg & went from thence through Lowell Waterville & Albany to sd Bethel to protect & defend the frontier settlements about that place, and he with his soldiers returned from thence to Fryeburg in Decr D 1781 - that in January after he went to Boston earned his papers, and obtained from Government his pay for his services for the services of his soldiers who men had been with him at sd Bethel - and it is the general belief that said men served in the war of the revolution at said Bethel in the vicinity where they and I live sd Dresher not being in that service the first season, nor said Abbott the last in 1783 - and that from my long acquaintance with them & from hearing them and others speak of their services, and of accur- acies, which they boasted I have no more doubt that each of them did serve in the war of the revolution as they have stated in their several declarations, than I have of my own existence - Judah Dana Justice of the Peace

State of Maine.
April 88 On this ninth day of Jany in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty two, before me personally appeared my son Moses Hutchinson to me justly the heir in and to said County and State Levi Foster of Fryeburg said County and State, who being duly sworn according to law made the following Declaration relative to the Revolutionary services of Daniel Eastman late of said County and State, deceased.
In the spring 1852 Lieut. Stephen Harrington enlisted a company of twenty men in me, Daniel Eastman and myself enlisted for three months, as high as I can recollect, at the expiration of the three months said Lieut. Harrington sent a new order to increase his company to thirty men then Daniel Eastman and myself again enlisted as an indefinite period or until discharged. Our last services were under Lieut. Harrington. Our services in 1852 consisted in scouting and ranging about the first part of the season. The latter part of 1852 Lieut. Harrington took a part of his company and went to Lake Umbagog where we encamped about in search of Indians which then returned to Bethel on the Androscoggin River where we made our final quarters. Daniel Eastman was with us during the above named services to Lake Umbagog. He enlisted in 1852 in Fryeburg on a called order point, mustered before the Prentiss House in said Fryeburg, and marched immediately to Bethel. In 1851 I was at Saratoga under Gen. Stark, and knew nothing of Bethel in 1851. We returned home in 1852, in the month of Dec.

The snow was deep, and the Ponds were frozen over when we returned
Witness Hans Hutchinson Joseph T. Hiltts
J. L. G. Draper
Before me January 9th 1852 Personally appeared the above named Levi Tinsler and made oath that the above affidavit By him signed is true Before me Hans Hutchinson justice of the peace
I hereby certify that I have long known the above named Levi Tinsler and know him to be a man of truth & integrity and his statements under oath are entitled to full credit and belief.
Hans Hutchinson justice of the peace

State of Maine.
Oxford ss. On this day personally appeared Francis D. Dyer, to me known to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged that he executed the same for the purposes and consideration therein expressed. Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this 22nd day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty two, personally appeared before me Mrs. Abigail Dyer , a justice of the peace in and for said County and State. Francis Dyer of Fryeburg said County and State, who being duly sworn according to Law made the following declaration relative to the Revolutionary services of Samuel Eastman late of Lowell said County and State.
We received news in the Spring of 1781, by John Gove, who came from Bethel to Fryeburg, that the Indians had attacked some of the settlers in, or about Bethel on the Androscoggin River, said Gove requested the aid of Fryeburg. Stephen Harrington raised about twenty men as volunteers and Samuel Eastman and myself were of the number. We marched immediately to Bethel and remained there a few days under said Lieut. Harrington, and then enlisted under Capt. John Evans who had received orders to raise a company for the defence of the frontiers. In this enlistment served eight months and were discharged in the month of Dec. The same was fresh when we returned home. The next Spring in 1782, we again enlisted under Lieut. Stephen Harrington for the same kind of service on the Androscoggin River and made our head quarters at Bethel. The term of enlistment was for three months, and we had in our company twenty men. At the expiration of the three months which was in the latter part of July, Lieut. Harrington received orders to enlarge his company to thirty men, and said Saml. Eastman and myself again enlisted for three months which time we served out. In 1781 Capt. Evans went to Lake Umbagog and built a log boat, in which he and a part of his company, went in search of Indians, while the remainder of his men followed the shores of the Lake. The boat or canoe had our provisions in it which we lost by the upsetting of the boat while coming down the Lake. Samuel was with us during this expedition. There was one Thompson who got his leg so badly cut in building the boat that we were

intended to carry him on our backs over the carrying place, he was unable to step, and we had no provision, except fish, and the game that we could catch, we returned home in the winter but were not discharged in 1782.
Isaac Abbot
County Office 88 Jan'y 16 1832 Then personally appeared Isaac Abbot, and made oath that the above declaration by him signed is true.
Before me                      Moses Hubbard Justice of the Peace I further testify that I have known the above named Isaac Abbot and know him to be a man of truth integrity and his statements under oath are entitled to full credit and belief.
Moses Hubbard Justice of the Peace